2026-09-21 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora 45 Blocker Review Meeting

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Hi folks! It’s time for a Fedora 45 blocker (and FE) review meeting! We have 6 proposed blocker and 4 proposed freeze exceptions for Final.

The meeting will be on Matrix. Click the link above to join in a web client - you can authenticate with your FAS account - or use a dedicated client of your choosing.

If you have time today, you can take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full lists can be found here.

Remember, you can also now vote on bugs outside of review meetings! If you look at the bug list in the blockerbugs app, you’ll see links labeled “Vote!” next to all proposed blockers and freeze exceptions. Those links take you to tickets where you can vote. This page has instructions on how exactly you do it. We usually go through the tickets shortly before the meeting and apply any clear votes, so the meeting will just cover bugs where there wasn’t a clear outcome in the ticket voting yet. THIS MEANS IF YOU VOTE NOW, THE MEETING WILL BE SHORTER!

We’ll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they’re not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F45 can be found on the wiki.

For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process,
check out these links:

And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it’s supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki.

Have a good day and see you tomorrow!

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#blocker-review:fedoraproject.org: F45-blocker-review

Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 16:01:09 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:01:16)
  2. TOPIC:Introduction (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    1. INFO: Our purpose in this meeting is to review proposed blocker and nice-to-have bugs and decide whether to accept them, and to monitor the progress of fixing existing accepted blocker and nice-to-have bugs. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    2. INFO: We'll be following the process outlined at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    3. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    4. INFO: The bugs up for review today are available at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    5. LINK: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    6. INFO: The criteria for release blocking bugs can be found at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    7. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    8. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Beta_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    9. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Final_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:40)
    10. INFO: for Final, we have: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:55)
    11. INFO: 5 Proposed Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:56)
    12. INFO: 1 Accepted Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:56)
    13. INFO: 3 Proposed Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:06:00)
    14. INFO: 6 Accepted Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:06:00)
    15. INFO: Lukáš Růžička will secretarialize (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:06)
  3. TOPIC:Proposed Final blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:16)
  4. TOPIC:(2536815) dnf command not available in kickstart, f45 netboot installer (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:35)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536815 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:35)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2185 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:35)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, lorax, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:35)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaBlocker (+0,0,-1) (-boniboyblue) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:35)
    5. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+0,0,-2) (-boniboyblue, -nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:35)
    6. AGREED: 2536815 - punt (delay decision) - we suspect this will turn out rejected, but we'd like to ask the current and former installer teams whether use of dnf from the installer environment is/has ever been intended/supported, and look more into the issue the reporter is trying to work around, before making a final decision (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:30:22)
  5. TOPIC:(2537341) oo7-portal not installed by default after upgrading to f45 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:33:06)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537341 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:33:06)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2186 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:33:06)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, oo7, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:33:06)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+3,0,-0) (+poc, +catanzaro, +nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:33:06)
    5. AGREED: 2537341 - AcceptedBlocker (Final) - this is accepted as a violation of "Saving passwords to and retrieving passwords from the default keyring must work for all release-blocking desktops" for upgraded systems (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:48:45)
  6. TOPIC:(2448283) Selecting a non-ASCII capable keyboard layout should automatically also select US English as a second layout (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:48:58)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448283 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:48:58)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2132 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:48:58)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, plasma-setup, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:48:58)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+3,1,-1) (+panayang, +lruzicka, +boniboyblue, nielsenb, -augenauf) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:48:58)
    5. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+2,0,-0) (+panayang, +augenauf) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:48:58)
    6. AGREED: 2448283 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is a conditional violation of the "Keyboard layout configuration" criterion on KDE live installs for switched layouts, but we agreed the likely impact is limited as pre-selection is now fixed so most folks will just click through the screen, which works OK (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:09:18)
    7. INFO: that's all proposed blockers, let's move on to: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:08)
  7. TOPIC:Proposed Final freeze exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:23)
  8. TOPIC:(2530897) F45 grub boot fails with "invalid magic number" when installed to FW RAID multiple times from GTK installer (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:28)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2530897 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:28)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2175 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:28)
    3. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, anaconda, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:28)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+3,0,-0) (+kparal, +lruzicka, +nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:10:28)
    5. AGREED: 2530897 - AcceptedFreezeException (Final) - this is accepted as an installer bug with significant consequences for anyone who runs into it, which clearly can't be fixed with an update (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:15:57)
  9. TOPIC:(2533661) cockpit-machines pulls too many desktop dependencies via qemu-char-spice dep (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:16:24)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2533661 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:16:24)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2178 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:16:24)
    3. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, cockpit-machines, NEW, depends on other bugs (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:16:24)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+1,1,-0) (+zbyszek, nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:16:24)
  10. TOPIC:(2535835) Ctrl+Alt+F1 results in black or frozen screen on F45 KDE Desktop (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:24:41)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2535835 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:24:41)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2184 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:24:41)
    3. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, plasma-login-manager, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:24:41)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+3,0,-0) (+kparal, +derekenz, +nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:24:41)
    5. INFO: forgot to agreed the previous bug, going back (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:25:15)
  11. TOPIC:(2533661) cockpit-machines pulls too many desktop dependencies via qemu-char-spice dep (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:25:28)
    1. AGREED: 2533661 - RejectedFreezeException (Final) - this is rejected as it seems like a minor and somewhat-debated change that wouldn't really be appropriate in a freeze (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:25:39)
  12. TOPIC:(2535835) Ctrl+Alt+F1 results in black or frozen screen on F45 KDE Desktop (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:25:56)
    1. AGREED: 2535835 - RejectedFreezeException (Final) - this is rejected as the upstream issue discussion suggests this requires substantial work upstream, and such a change would not be appropriate to pull in during a freeze to fix a comparatively minor issue, given the risk of breaking something more important (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:33:48)
  13. TOPIC:Accepted Final blocker review (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:34:00)
    1. INFO: we will check in on the state of accepted blockers, not re-vote them (unless a specific reason to re-vote appears) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:34:18)
  14. TOPIC:(2535534) Some items in the Gnome Quick Settings menu do not work as expected. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:34:29)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2535534 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:34:29)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2183 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:34:29)
    3. INFO: Accepted Blocker, gnome-shell, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:34:29)
    4. INFO: this was fixed upstream in 51.0, so it should be fixed in F45 with https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-48a7996f9c , we have marked that update as fixing this bug (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:39:19)
  15. TOPIC:Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:40:25)


Meeting ended at 17:43:34 UTC

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